The Cerberus360 swimmer detection system, manufactured by QinetiQ, utilizes wideband sonar technologies to "detect intrusion by swimmers using snorkel, scuba or re-breather as well as swimmer delivery vehicles and provides the early detection, classification, tracking and warning of threat targets over a 1.6 km protection circle." Strategy Page reports that during test, the Cerberus360…

successfully detected approaching scuba divers (underwater swimmers) at a range of 900 meters. And, last year (2005), Raytheon reportedly received a patent for a sonar-based active denial system that uses sound waves to disrupt divers by making them vomit into their regulators. Disgusting-but-effective, one would think.

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